Everyone was awestruck by the beauty of Edgar's bloblobloblob.

Or alternatively sick to their stomach.

So I'm playing Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Anyone play any cool games?

It's SO MUCH better than the original Masquerade game--which is an almost unplayable 3-D Diablo clone(ish).

ALSO, I figured out the reason my computer sucks. It's the damn CPU. (!@$@! you, AMD.) There are people who play PUBG with my exact card (GTX 1060). The guy with the AMD FX-8350 gets 30-40 FPS in 1080p. NOT 4K. NOT 1440p. Freakin' 1080p with a brand new GTX 1060.

Okay, fine, maybe it's the game. (It is, partially...)

Another guy has the same card, but a i5 7500, and he gets 130 FPS. That's over FOUR TIMES the framerate for the same videocard! My next upgrade will definitely be an Intel.

Who cares if you have eight cores... if they're all slow?!

Even if you're playing a typical game, recording with NVENC (GPU), and running some random stuff like Steam/Discord/uPlay/etc on a dedicated CPU, you're max using... ~4 CPUs.

I wish against wishes I wasn't about to lose my job. Then I'd have some money to buy a CPU.

Anyway, back to Bloodlines. It's part... Deus Ex, Thief, Fallout 1/2, and more. The combat is one of the least interesting/fun aspects, actually. The puzzles, dialogs, and stat system is really fun.

Oddly enough, this is the first game I've ever played where I thought "Okay, these clothes are too sexy. This is just stupid." and it actually detracted from the gameplay. Nobody walks around in thong armor. And I "get it" they're vampires and hyper-sexual but this game super shows its age. Everyone SUPER looks straight out of "hip 2004" fashion. Like they were ripped from an Orgy music video.

It's pretty funny. But when I got upgraded armor thinking "Hey, at least she'll be wearing clothes", no, she went from $lutty Cheerleader, to $lutty Cowgirl (complete with $ssless chaps), and now, $lutty Cop. Like, we're talking Halloween costumes. It's embarrassing for a 30 year old man to be playing this.

But you don't have to be a female. And there are like 8 playable classes ("clans"), and only the one I choose happened to coincidentally be the sluttiest. The male models are also hyper sexual.

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HULK. SMASH.

The clans also support "backstories" which give big modifiers (that I didn't know about when I made my character). For example, if you're a "$lut" it's easier to seduce people, but you can't gain XP as fast because you're dumb. Lulz.

There's lots of humor. ESPECIALLY if you play a Malkavian clan (which I do in the vids), which are demented/insane/schizophrenics where all your dialog options are crazy / odd. Like, talking to a taxi driver, you refer to it as a yellow beetle flying into the sunset.

Either way, it's a real (enjoyable) time sink. I've been playing 2-3 hours each time and the time just flies by.

There's very little in terms of RPG "loot" to get. However, the environments are fun to explore / break into, much like Deus Ex. And it's much more open-world than Deus Ex.

Just create your own story-driven, single-player game. Then when it's done, take an amnesia pill to forget about it so you can enjoy it anew!

Star Control 3 was okay. It was a pain in the buttocks getting used to that 3D space map, but I got used to it. What I didn't like was when I FINALLY completed it, than there was a bug and I NEVER did see the ending to it due to the bug.

Welp. There goes my job.

Not much of a game, but playable non-the-less.

Oh! You were referring to

Good luck. Even if you get DOS Box up and run the game, you'll still need a key to play it. I have the software SOMEWHERE... but I doubt I can find the key again.

Perfect. Wishlisted that too. If it ever goes on sale I'll snatch it up.

You can play starflight on:
https://classicreload.com/starflight.html
I tried but I have no clue what to do

... I ... who are you wanting the money to go to?

The owner of IP (whoever that is), put it up for sale on GOG. GOG sells old games. "Good old games". It's as legit as any Steam purchase or any other store.

They actually work toward fixing/porting some games that don't run on DOSBox out-of-the-box. For example, Red Guard, has all the CD music tracks converted to MP3s and they have some sort of emulation layer that makes the game think it's playing a CD. That's neat.

Electronic Arts isn't even the developer. They're just the publisher. They were likely responsible for marketing and distribution, and maybe invested to get the development done. The ideas were probably mostly those of underappreciated talents within the development company (Binary Systems, apparently). And what's more, both games are 3 decades old. Does anybody deserve any money anymore? The development team is probably long retired. They've probably already been paid handsomely for their work (at least, if any of your purchase today would even reach them; it's probably just free money for EA). How would it benefit society to make crooked corporations richer?

That all said, GOG is legit as far as I can tell. I just started using it. It seems like Steam with fewer bells, but with more DRM-free content.

Electronic Arts?

They're 100% legit. They're the same company that made Witcher 1-3. They're not some random company in China selling below-MSRP steam keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt

"By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion.[4] "

Then send a check directly to Greg Johnson.

The person who owns the IP gets the money. If someone buys the IP from the publisher that originally funded it... then the new company gets the money. When Atari went out of business, someone bought many of their IP's, and now "they" sell "Atari" games and get the profit.

But if all you want is the legal right to play the game.. then you pay whoever... currently owns the game.

I have 387 games (99% were on sale!) from GOG so far. Monkey Island. Jagged Alliance. Deus Ex. Unreal Tournament. Vampire Bloodlines. Far Cry 1 and 2. The list goes on. GOG does "DRM free" games. You can always download a physical file and it's "Yours Forever (TM)" like buying a boxed copy used to mean. So I feel like I'm supporting a "Good Idea (TM)" when I buy from GOG over Steam or some other service like uPlay (::vomit::). The games will run forever, without a connection to a home server. (Few exceptions exist with newer games that call home, for multiplayer support. Many people give those games 1-star reviews.)

[edit] To be clear: GOG is no different than Steam. They're a store that sells games that the IP owners upload. Except GOG has a huge community of people who request new "old games" to add and get refurbished to run on modern systems. For example, patching a Glide game to run in OpenGL/DirectX so you can play it.